Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: “A lemon that’s been tricked out with a fancy paint job … scrutiny under the hood … priced himself out of the race … doesn’t exactly get a warm embrace … an oversized video game … the next lap.”

Peter Travers, Rolling Stone: “A literal joke … the link to logic in Chris Morgan’s script evaporates … a used car that can occasionally choke to life and burn up the road … get under his hood.”

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: “Rotates these nouns through various assortments of dialogue … a scaffolding on which to hang the body of the movie.”